Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley - Volume 2 by John MacGillivray (the dot read aloud TXT) 📖

the cumulative evidence derived from other quarters, it would be doubtful whether the na could legitimately be considered as a possessive affix at all. It MAY, however, be so even in the present instance.

To these we may add two lists from the Lobo and Utanata dialects of the south-western coast of New Guinea.

COLUMN 1: ENGLISH. COLUMN 2: UTANATA. COLUMN 3: LOBO.

Arms : too : nima-ngo. Back : urimi : rusuko-ngo. Beard : - : minooro. Belly : imauw : kanboro-ngo. Breast, female : auw : gingo-ngo. Breast, male : paiety : gingo-ngo Cheeks : awamu : wafiwirio-ngo. Ears : ianie : -. Eyebrows : - : matato-ngo-wuru. Eyes : mame : matatoto-ngo. Fingers : - : nima-ngo-sori. Foot : mouw : kai-ngo. Hands : toe-mare : nima-ngo-uta. Hair : oeirie : mono-ng-furu. Head : oepauw : mono-ngo or umum. Knee : iripu : kai-ngo-woko. Mouth : irie : orie-ngo. Nose : birimboe : sikaio-ngo. Neck : ema : gara-ng. Tongue : mare : kario-ngo. Thigh : ai : willanima. Teeth : titi : riwoto-ngo. Toes : - : nisora.

Finally, we have the long, and evidently compound forms of p** in the Corio, Colack, and other Australian dialects; long and evidently compound forms which no hypothesis so readily explains as that of the possessive adjunct; a phenomenon which future investigation many show to be equally Oceanic and American.

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APPENDIX 4.

CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF THE NORTH-EAST COAST OF AUSTRALIA AND TORRES STRAIT.

Lists exhibiting the occurrence of Australian Birds in particular districts are instructive, as showing the range of species over the various parts of an extensive district, and as bearing upon, and to my mind confirming, to a certain extent, the views of those geologists who consider Australia to have formerly appeared as a cluster of three or four islands, subsequently connected since the tertiary epoch so as to form what may now be considered as a continent. With the kind assistance in determining the species of Mr. Gould, who has elsewhere published similar lists* of the birds of other parts of Australia, the annexed Catalogue has been made out. All the species contained therein have passed under my own observation, and I have distributed them in three columns; the first includes that portion of the north-east coast of Australia and its islands included between the Tropic of Capricorn and latitude 17 degrees 45 minutes south, or the parallel of the bottom of the Gulf of Carpentaria; the second comprises the remainder of the north-east coast as far to the northward as Cape York; and the third is devoted to the islands of Torres Strait, from Raine Islet to Bramble Cay. The species marked with an ? (query) are those which are probably local varieties, representatives of southern birds, showing slight differences in size, etc., yet not decided enough to be of specific value.

(*Footnote. In the works of Strzelecki and Eyre, and Introduction to the Birds of Australia. )

Ichthyaetus leucogaster 1 2 3. Haliastur leucosternmus 1 2 3. Pandion leucocephalus 1 2 3. Falco frontatus 3. Ieracidea berigora 2. Astur novae hollandiae 1 3. Astur approximans 1 2. Accipiter torquatus 1 2 3. Milvus affinis 1 2. Circus jardinii 3. Strix delicatula 1 2 3. Athene boobook 1. Athene maculata 1 2. Podargus humeralis 1. Podargus papuensis 2. Podargus marmoratus 2. Eurystopodus albogularis 2 3. Eurystopodus guttatus 1 2 3. Acanthylis caudacuta 2. Cypselus australis 2 3. Collocalia 1. Chelidon arborea 1 3. Merops ornatus 1 2 3. Dacelo leachii 1 2. Halcyon torotoro 2. Halcyon sancta 1 2 3. Halcyon sordida 1 2 3. Halcyon macleayii 1 2 3. Tanysiptera sylvia 2. Alcyone azurea 2. Alcyone pusilla 1 2. Artamus leucopygialis 1 2 3. Dicaeum hirundinaceum 1 2 3. Cracticus nigrogularis 1 2. Cracticus quoyii 1 2. Grallina australis 2. Grauculus melanops 1 2 3. Grauculus hypoleucus 2. Grauculus swainsonii 2. Campephaga karu 1 2 3. Pachycephala melanura 2 3. Colluricincla brunnea 1 2 3. Colluricincla harmonica 2. Dicrurus bracteatus 1 2 3. Rhipidura rufifrons 2. Seisura inquieta 1 2 3. Piezorhynchus nitidus 1 2 3. Myiagra concinna 1 2 3. Myiagra latirostris 1 2. Monarcha trivirgata 1 2 3. Monarcha leucotis 1 2. Arses kaupii 2. Petroica bicolor ? 2 3. Machaerirhynchus flaviventris 2. Drymodes superciliosa 2. Malurus amabilis 2. Malurus brownii 1. Sphenoeacus galactotes 2 3. Cysticola lineocapilla 1 2 3. Sericornis maculata ? 2. Anthus australis 1 2. Estrelda bichenovii 1. Donacola castaneothorax 2 3. Pitta strepitans 1 2 3. Chlamydera nuchalis 1. Chlamydera cerviniventris 2 3. Oriolus assimilis 2. Oriolus flavocinctus 2. Sphecotheres flaviventris 2. Aplonis metallica 2. Chalybaeus cornutus 2. Corvus coronoides 1 2 3. Ptilotis chrysotis 1 2 3. Ptilotis filigera 2. Ptilotis 2. Entomophila 1. Tropidorhynchus argenticeps 2. Tropidorhynchus 2. Myzomela erythrocephala 2 3. Myzomela obscura 1 2 3. Nectarinia australis 1 2 3. Zosterops luteus 1 2 3. Cuculus cineraceus 1. Cuculus insperatus 1. Chrysococcyx lucidus 1 2. Endynamys flindersii 1 2 3. Centropus phasianus 1 2 3. Ptiloris victoriae 1. Ptiloris magnifica 2. Cacatua galerita 1 2 3. Microglossus aterrimus 2. Calyptorhynchus banksii 1. Aprosmictus erythropterus ? 1 2. Platycercus palliceps ? 2. Melopsittacus undulatus 1. Trichoglossus swainsonii 1 3. Trichoglossus rubritorquis 2. Ptilonopus ewingii 1 2. Ptilonopus superbus 2 3. Carpophaga luctuosa 1 2 3. Carpophaga puella 2. Lopholaimus antarcticus 2. Chalcophaps chrysochlora 1 2. Phaps elegans 1. Geopelia humeralis 1 2 3. Geopelia tranquilla 1 2 3. Macropygia phasianella ? 1. Talegalla lathami 1 2. Megapodius tumulus 1 2 3. Turnix melanota 1 2 3. Coturnix pectoralis 2. Synoicus australis 1 2 3. Synoicus sinensis 3. Dromaius novae hollandiae 1 2. Otis australasiana 1. Esacus magnirostris 1 2 3. Oedicnemus grallarius 1. Hoematopus longirostris 1 2 3. Hoematopus fuliginosus 1 2 3. Sarciophorus pectoralis 1. Charadrius xanthocheilus 1 2 3. Hiaticula bicincta 1. Hiaticula ruficapilla 1 2 3. Hiaticula inornata 2 3. Limosa uropygialis 1 2 3. Schoeniclus australis 1 2 3. Schoeniclus albescens 1 2 3. Actitis empusa 1 2. Glottis glottoides 1 2 3. Strepsilas interpres 1 2 3. Numenius australis 1 2 3. Numenius uropygialis 1 2 3. Numenius minutus 2. Threskiornis strictipennis 2. Grus australasianus 1 2. Mycteria australis 2. Ardea Pacifica 2. Ardea novae hollandiae 1. Herodias jugularis 1 2 3. Herodias greyii 1 2 3. Herodias plumifera 2 3. Herodias syrmatophora 3. Nycticorax caledonicus 1 2 3. Ardetta flavicollis 1 2. Ardetta stagnatilis 2 3. Porphyrio melanota 3. Rallus pectoralis 1 2 3. Porzana leucophrys 3. Tadorna radjah 1 2. Anas superciliosa 1. Anas punctata 1 2. Xema jamesonii ? 1 2 3. Sylochelidon strennuus 1 2. Thalasseus pelecanoides 1 2 3. Sterna gracilis 2. Sterna melanauchen 1 2 3. Sternula nereis 2 3. Hydrochelidon fluviatilis 2. Onychoprion fuliginosus 1 2 3. Onychoprion panaya 1 2 3. Anous stolidus 1 2 3. Anous leucocapillus 1 2 3. Puffinus sphenurus 1 3. Phalacrocorax carboides 1. Phalacrocorax melanoleucus 1 2 3. Attagen ariel 1 2 3. Phaeton phoenicurus 3. Pelecanus conspicillatus 1 2 3. Sula personata. Sula fusca 1 2 3. Sula piscator 1 2 3.

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APPENDIX 5.

ON THE MOLLUSCA COLLECTED BY MR. MACGILLIVRAY DURING THE VOYAGE OF THE RATTLESNAKE, BY PROFESSOR EDWARD FORBES, F.R.S.

1. ON THE BATHYMETRICAL DISTRIBUTION OF MARINE TESTACEA ON THE EASTERN COAST OF AUSTRALIA.

As in every instance the exact locality, depth and character of habitat of species of Mollusc taken were carefully noted of at the time of capture, much more valuable information elucidating the distribution of shellfish in the Australian seas has been collected during this expedition than was ever before obtained. Whilst new species are usually sought after by collectors with eagerness, the habits and range of the commoner or less conspicuous forms are passed over without observation.* Hence every note on the habitat and mode of life of marine creatures from the southern hemisphere becomes of no small value. Indeed, there is no information more desirable at this time for the illustration of geological phenomena, than such as may throw light on the distribution in range and depth of the creatures inhabiting the sea of the Tropics, and those living around the coasts of Australia and New Zealand. The following notes will serve to record the more prominent facts bearing upon the Bathymetrical distribution of the Testacea collected on the northern coast of Australia, at Port Essington, and on the eastern coast from Cape York to Bass Strait, including the northern ports of Van Diemen's Land.

(*Footnote. An extensive collection of landshells was made at Madeira. They proved on examination to be all known species, including several of the rarer forms, and not a few of those discovered by the Reverend Mr. Lowe. They were compared with Madeiran specimens by Mr. Vernon Wollaston. When the Rattlesnake touched at the Azores on the return voyage, a few landshells were collected at Fayal. Among them was the Helix barbula, an Asturian species, Helix pauperata, and Bulimus variatus, Madeiran or Canarian forms. A considerable number of marine and terrestrial Testacea were procured at Rio de Janeiro, not a few of them new and of great interest. Terebratula rosea was dredged off Rio in thirteen fathoms water, on a coarse sandy bottom. Collections were also made at the Cape of Good Hope, at Mauritius and in the Falkland Isles. The radiata were gathered with as much care and their habitats recorded with as much attention as the Mollusca.)

It may here be remarked that the Molluscan fauna of the seas of North Australia and of the north-east coast from Cape York southwards to Sandy Cape, belongs to the great Indo-Pacific province, a zoological region extending from the east coast of Africa (from Port Natal or a little above, northwards to Suez) to Easter Island in the Pacific. But south of Sandy Cape and onwards to Van Diemen's Land (and apparently including New Zealand) we have a distinct (East)Australian province, marked by a peculiar fauna in many respects, representative of the Senegal, and perhaps also Lusitanian regions of the North Atlantic.

Proceeding in descending order we may first remark on the:

SHELLS OF SALT MARSHES.

As in the Northern hemisphere, Melampus or Convolvulus is the genus represented in such localities. Thus Auricula australis prevails in salt marshes at Brisbane Water, and an allied species in similar places in New Zealand. In both instances we find this form accompanied by members of a curious genus characteristic of the Australian province-Ampullacera, the Ampullacera quoyana being the Brisbane Water species, and A. avellana, that of New Zealand. In the latter case an Assiminea is its companion. A very curious fact noted during the expedition was the presence of a Unio living within the influence of salt water, in the River Brisbane.

SHELLS INHABIT MUD, ETC. AMONG MANGROVES.

These belong to the Indo-Pacific province. Some are found on the mangroves themselves. Such are the Littorina scabra, on the trunks and branches of mangroves among islets in Trinity Bay; a Phasianella inhabiting the trunks and branches of Rhizophora at the Percy Isles; a Littorina on the leaves of Aigaeceras fragrans at Port Curtis, Auricula angulata, and rugulata on the trunks of mangroves at Port Essington, and Monodonta viridis on their roots at Night Island; a new and very beautiful Ostrea was found on the roots of mangroves among Low Islets in Trinity Bay. In the last-named locality a Cytherea inhabited the mud around their roots. At the Three Islets several new species of Melampus, a Nerita and a Cyrena lived in a like habitat, and at Port Essington Cerithium kieneri, was found in the same situation. The fine Cyrena cyrenoides lives among the roots of mangroves in the Louisiade Archipelago.

LITTORAL ZONE.

Of the many living Gasteropoda taken in this region, very few are new species. Of Patelloid forms we have a new Fissurella and Parmophorus convexus at Port